Gauss

[Hank]

BRAIN OF ROBERT
GAUSS WEIGHS 62
OUNCES SAYS PAPER
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Brilliant Man, Well Known to Our
People, Has Larger Brain Than
His Grandfather.
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Robert Gauss, whose childhood was spent in St. Charles, but who died recently at Denver, Colo., developed a brain of greater weight than that of his grandfather, a noted German astronomer and mathematician.
From a New York paper we clip the following information.
St. Charles, Mo.
Denver, Col., Jan. 24.--In compliance with the expressed wish of the late Robert Gauss, his brain was removed for the purpose of weighing and examining the same and comparing it with that of his distinguished grandfather, Karl Frederick Gauss, the great German mathematician.
The operation was performed by Dr. R. W. Arndt and the brain weighed and photographed. As expected it was found to be unusually large. Its weight with wrappings, which were very light, was sixty-two ounces.
Mr. Gauss was a well known editorial writer. The brain of his distinguished grandfather weighed 52.7 ounces. ------ The average mail brain weighs about 48 ounces and the average female brain 43 1-2 ounces. In many men of great intellectual eminence the brain weight has been large. Cuvier's weighed 64 1-2 ounces, Abercrombie's 63 ounces and Goodsir's 57 1-2 ounces.
"Brains over 60 ounces," says the Encyclopedia Britannica, "are frequently found in quite undistinguished people." The same authority says that, while idiots sometimes have brains that weigh as little as 8 1-2 ounces, "it is doubtful if normal intelligence is possible with a brain weighing less than 32 ounces." -----

[paul skinner]

"Einstein's brain weighed only 1,230 grams, which is less than the
average adult male brain (about 1,400 grams). The authors also
reported that the thickness of Einstein's cerebral cortex (area 9) was
thinner than that of five control brains. However, the DENSITY of
neurons in Einstein's brain was greater. In other words, Einstein was
able to pack more neurons in a given area of cortex."


What a great pickup line.

"Hey baby. I have big cerebellum".

//nerd porn :)

[Greg O'Bryant]

Yes the cerebellum. My favorite part of the brain. You probably know that the cerebellum has more neurons than the entire cortex. A lot of animals have a larger and more developed cerebral cortex then humans like elephants or orcas but no animal has a cerebellum that is as evolved as a humans! Is it the neo-nob on the back of our brainstem that makes us different?

[Mark]

And yet our brain is still pretty quirky sometimes. Maybe one day there will be pulsejet therapy.
Mark
http://www.library.okstate.edu/friends/cobb/sacks.htm